The right of a nation to kill a tyrant, in cases of necessity, can no more be doubted, than to hang a robber, or kill a flea. But killing one tyrant only makes way for worse, unless the people have sense, spirit and honesty enough to establish and support a constitution guarded at all points against the tyranny of the one, the few, and the many.

Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.

Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety?

The people "have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge- I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers."

Mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity.

Griefs upon griefs! Disappointments upon disappointments. What then? This is a gay, merry world notwithstanding.

When philosophic reason is clear and certain by intuition or necessary induction, no subsequent revelation supported by prophecies or miracles can supersede it.